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15-letter words containing u, d, a, l

  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • individualising — Present participle of individualise.
  • individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • industrial arts — (used with a plural verb) the methods of using tools and machinery, as taught in secondary and technical schools.
  • industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
  • industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
  • industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • intraindividual — Occurring within an individual.
  • iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
  • island universe — an external galaxy.
  • islands council — (in Scotland since 1975) any of the three divisions (Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles) into which the Scottish islands are divided for purposes of local government
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
  • juan de la cruz — San [sahn] /sɑn/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
  • juan del encina — Juan del [hwahn del] /ʰwɑn dɛl/ (Show IPA), 1468?-1529? Spanish poet, composer, and playwright.
  • jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
  • judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
  • judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
  • judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
  • judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
  • julian calendar — the calendar established by Julius Caesar in 46 b.c., fixing the length of the year at 365 days and at 366 days every fourth year. There are 12 months of 30 or 31 days, except for February (which has 28 days with the exception of every fourth year, or leap year, when it has 29 days).
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • keyboard plaque — (jargon)   The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
  • lambda calculus — a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
  • lambda-calculus — (mathematics)   (Normally written with a Greek letter lambda). A branch of mathematical logic developed by Alonzo Church in the late 1930s and early 1940s, dealing with the application of functions to their arguments. The pure lambda-calculus contains no constants - neither numbers nor mathematical functions such as plus - and is untyped. It consists only of lambda abstractions (functions), variables and applications of one function to another. All entities must therefore be represented as functions. For example, the natural number N can be represented as the function which applies its first argument to its second N times (Church integer N). Church invented lambda-calculus in order to set up a foundational project restricting mathematics to quantities with "effective procedures". Unfortunately, the resulting system admits Russell's paradox in a particularly nasty way; Church couldn't see any way to get rid of it, and gave the project up. Most functional programming languages are equivalent to lambda-calculus extended with constants and types. Lisp uses a variant of lambda notation for defining functions but only its purely functional subset is really equivalent to lambda-calculus. See reduction.
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • lantern gurnard — a type of gurnard
  • lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • lauric aldehyde — a colorless, extremely alcohol-soluble liquid having a strong floral odor, C 12 H 24 O, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • liberal studies — a supplementary arts course for those specializing in scientific, technical, or professional studies
  • liquid paraffin — a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative
  • liquidity ratio — the ratio of those assets that can easily be exchanged for money to the total assets of a bank or other financial institution
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
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